The Young Pope
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The Young Pope
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masterful gambit jed
Btw, guys who accept the QO get the same no-trade protection as any player who signs this winter. Their teams can’t trade them without their permission until May 15.
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Jed! and crew are very bad at their jobs
Full story on Imanaga's return to the Cubs. Jed Hoyer (who thought Cody Bellinger would opt out last year, and didn't expect Marcus Stroman to do so the year before, and seems to misread the free-agent market often) might have missed his guess here. northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/...
BREAKING: Shota Imanaga Accepts Qualifying Offer, Will Stay with Cubs for $22.025 Million
The Cubs won't be parting ways with their veteran southpaw starters, after all. After each side declined an option earlier this month, Shota Imanaga opted to accept the qualifying offer Tuesday.
northsidebaseball.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
potbelly’s being sold to private equity hurts so bad
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
@freelarrydoby.bsky.social wanna go to brazil?
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
i dont think people realize how catastrophic DOGE and Trump have been for universities. People wanna say sports are separate but when you dont have any cash anywhere and all forms of income - from foreign students to cancer research grants - everything suffers
So with the B1G jumping from a failed private equity deal to a 24-team playoff proposal I have to ask the question: do they owe someone money? Because this is all coming off very "pay me by next week or I'm breaking your legs"
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
thats a hefty black lab right there
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Andrew Johnson — a Jan. 6 rioter who went by "Am🇺🇸rican T🇺🇸rrorist” on Elon Musk’s platform — has been arrested on child molestation charges, with police saying he used the promise of a taxpayer-funded payout from Trump's DOJ to try and keep one of the victims silent.

theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.
theintercept.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
sea otters are classified as weasels. wild
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
like ive said for about a decade the gop has wanted nothing more than to occupy mexico after they nationalized lithium
A news conference started well for Gianni Infantino. Then Trump reiterated threats to relocate World Cup games from LA and Seattle. And then the likely recipient of FIFA’s peace prize didn’t rule out launching strikes on World Cup co hosts Mexico.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
Trump threatens World Cup host cities over 'safety' concerns, announces visa scheme for fans
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
if he recruits at 75% what he did at psu it will be the besr vt teams in like 25 years
I think James Franklin will be just fine at Virginia Tech, this is a non-hot take
November 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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My annual reminder that Andy Pettitte took PEDs and lied about it multiple times, giving half-truths each time new information turned up that he could not deny.

Which is to say that you should ignore anyone who supports his Hall of Fame case while knocking Manny, A-Rod, etc. for PED use/dishonesty.
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
whats funny is that both will probably ignore the massive plague that hit and the christianization of slavs, basically ending the endless supply of slaves for romans after they no longer could take new lands by force
Roman helmet guy is the Hiroo Onoda of the Roman Empire
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Pitt’s star running back said he sat out an extra week to make sure he was healthy for the Notre Dame game. You cannot honestly believe Pitt/Narduzzi didn’t want to beat Notre Dame on Saturday. It was their biggest home game in years.
I do think there is going to be legitimate discourse about coaches like Narduzzi saying games against ND are irrelevant when they are angling for a conference title & then going out and playing like it. If no team playing against ND is taking the games seriously then there’s going to be issues.
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
jj mccarthy is literal trash
November 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Luv & Honor
Halftime

Miami-OH 2-2 Northwestern
Duke 0-1 North Carolina
Syracuse 0-0 Princeton
UConn 0-1 Harvard

#NCAAFH
November 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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reminder that Dubs, Washington’s live mascot, is an ABSOLUTE UNIT
November 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Sark Soft
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
iowa big ten-ing the shit out of ucs rn
November 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Statement from the Texas Department of Public Safety:

"The DPS Trooper involved has been sent home from the game. DPS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) is also aware of the incident and will be further looking into the matter."

Story on the Nyck Harbor incident: www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
thats not communism
Yes, sort of, but "salami tactics" refers to the way Communists after 1945 would infiltrate parliamentary systems by gaining control of key ministries and other positions one "slice" at a time. Today people use it as a generic frog-boil metaphor, but it used to have more precise meaning in E. Eur.
What we are experiencing is creeping authoritarianism, in which incremental changes some have referred to in the past as “salami tactics” are used to undermine all of the underpinnings of democratic government, slicing them away methodically with (in this case) mostly quasi-legal modifications. Yes?
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
the massive contract extension curse
I truly did not think this aTm team had this level of Aggie-ing in them. Truly impressive. Also will not do anything to keep them out of the playoff if they don’t do it again.
November 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
fucking texaa scumbag cop just shouldered the gamecocks players
November 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM